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enWhat does it mean to work in a system that fails you and your kids?: A beginning teacher's journey through the Chicago Public Schoolshttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-educational-disparities.mp3
Free and open to the public Join the conversation on Twitter #ateachersjourney About the performance: This ethnodramatic performance tells the story of a beginning teacher's first year in the Chicago Public Schools and her efforts to make a difference in a third grade classroom with 16 boys and 5 girls, where about half the students had not been promoted the previous school year. The first year teacher shares stories of the year's struggles, successes, and the students she cared for most.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3449Causes, consequences & potential solutions to the problem of educational disparities in the US: Perspectives from psychology, sociology & economicshttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-mlk-roundtable.mp3
Free and open to the public. Join in the conversation on Twitter #eddispartiites About the roundtable: This seminar will feature speakers from sociology, psychology and economics giving their perspectives on the causes, consequences and potential solutions to the problem of educational disparities in the United States. Each speaker will discuss their own work as it relates to educational disparities in the United States, also drawing on existing work from the field that has bearing on this topic.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3450Legacies of the war on poverty, lessons for the futurehttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-legacies-war-on-poverty-keynote.mp3
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy will host this event as one of the highlights of the school's year-long centennial celebrations. Join the conversation on Twitter: #TalkPoverty About the event: January 8, 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3453Metropolitan areas, regionalism, and the politics of intergovernmental cooperationhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-gerber.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Continue the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks About the event: The Ford School's distinguished Jack L. Walker, Jr. Professor of Public Policy Elisabeth R. Gerber will deliver a lecture as part of our school's centennial celebrations. About the speaker: Elisabeth R. Gerber is Jack L. Walker, Jr. Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Research Associate at the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3456Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 2014 Commencementhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-commencement.mp3
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The Charge to the Class will be delivered by U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI). This event is to be web streamed.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3486A conversation on leadership and foreign policyhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-negroponte.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Join the conversation on Twitter: #FordPolicyUnion About the speaker In more than forty years of distinguished public service Ambassador (ret) John Negroponte, a career American diplomat, held such positions as US Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq. He served twice on the US National Security Council staff, first as director for Vietnam in the Nixon Administration and then as Deputy National Security Advisor under President Reagan.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/348820 years after the Rwandan Genocide - with Paul Rusesabaginahttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-rusesabagina.mp3
Free and open to the public. Join in on the discussion on social media using #fordschoolrwanda This Keynote lecture is part of the IPC commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3490Obamacare and beyond: How to reform the U.S. Health Systemhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-avik-roy-jonathan-cohn-debate.mp3
Avik Roy and Jonathan Cohn debate over the viability of the Affordable Care Act.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3504Using information disclosure to achieve policy goals: How experience with the Toxics Release Inventory can inform action on shale gas frackinghttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2013-fracking-disclosure.mp3
**** Watch the video **** Free and open to the public. Abstract The federal Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is the premier national example of a non-regulatory environmental policy, and it illustrates well both the potential and limitations of using information disclosure to achieve policy goals. The TRI was adopted in 1986 as an amendment to the federal Superfund law, and since 1988 we have had annual reports on the release of over 650 toxic chemicals by some 20,000 industrial facilities around the nation.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3371The aftermath of financial crises: It doesn't have to be that badhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-romer.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Continue the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks About the lecture: In the wake of the 2008 crisis, many have concluded that financial crises inevitably lead to prolonged, terrible recessions. But in fact, there have been a wide range of experiences throughout history. How much countries suffer depends crucially on the policies governments adopt.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3516Transformation of America's metropolitan area economies: Lessons from four decadeshttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-george-fulton.mp3
Free and open to the public. Read the working paper See the presentation slides Speaker: George Fulton , Director, Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, Department of Economics, Research Professor, Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy, University of Michigan About the Speaker: George A. Fulton received his Ph.D.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3374Networked Diplomacy: Exercising Influence in a Modern Worldhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-boucher.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Follow the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks From the speaker's bio: Richard Boucher comes to us following his tenure as Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Prior to joining OECD, Richard enjoyed an extremely successful career with the State Department, becoming the longest-serving Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and serving as Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs (2006-2009).Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3519Lessons from Youngstown – Planning for a Smaller, Greener Cityhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-lessons-from-youngstown.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Discussants: Ian Beniston , Deputy Director, Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation Hunter Morrison , Director, Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium Initiative John Russo , Visiting Research Fellow, Virginia Tech University's Metropolitan Institute (Arlington) Moderators: Margaret Dewar , Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan June Manning Thomas , Centennial Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan AboSun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3394Peace Corps in the 21st Centuryhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-peace-corps.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Follow the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks From the speaker's bio: Carrie Hessler-Radelet is acting Director of the Peace Corps as of July 2013. She was initially appointed deputy director of the Peace Corps on June 23, 2010. She is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Western Samoa, 1981–83) with more than two decades of experience in public health focused on HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3520The real problem with Citizens United: Campaign finance, dark money, and shadow partieshttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-gerken-citizens-united.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Join the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks About the topic Few cases have generated as much controversy as Citizens United . The story told by reformers and reporters is that Citizens United ushered in a new era of dark money, with wealthy corporations spending wildly, saturating the airwaves, and taking over American politics. Most of that story is wrong, and some of it is nonsense.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3417Inequality in Americahttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-blank.mp3
Rebecca Blank will deliver the Citi Foundation Policy Talks @ the Ford School keynote of the two-day Poverty, Policy, and People: 25 Years of Research and Training at the University of Michigan .Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3522Supplying Disadvantaged Schools with Effective Teachers: Experimental Evidence on Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For Americahttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-clark.mp3
Free and open to the public Teach For America (TFA) is an important but controversial source of teachers for hard-to-staff subjects in high-poverty U.S. schools. We present findings from the first large-scale experimental study of secondary math teachers from TFA. We find that TFA teachers are more effective than other math teachers in the same schools, increasing student math achievement by 0.07 standard deviations over one school year.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3422Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold Warhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-rohde.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception and book signing to follow. About the book Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. Yet the controversy it inspired was not new.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3523The need for commonsense immigration reformhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2013-cecilia-munoz-commonsense-immigration-reform.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Join the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks About Cecilia Muñoz Cecilia Muñoz (AB '84) is the Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council, which coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White House. Prior to this role, she served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs where she oversaw the Obama Administration's relationships with state and local governments. Before joining the Obama Administration, Cecilia servSun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3424Khmer Rouge Trials: Serving to End or Compound Cambodia's Culture of Impunity?http://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-picken.mp3
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. About the event In a conversation moderated by Susan Waltz, Margo Picken and John Ciorciari will discuss the positive and negative effects of the UN-backed Khmer Rouge trials that began several years ago in "extraordinary chambers" of the courts of Cambodia. Will they bring "closure" to the country's dark past?Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3524Faith, the White House, and the Public Squarehttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2013-joshua-dubois_1.mp3
Noting the federal government's long history of partnering with religious and secular charities to serve communities in need, Joshua DuBois , Spiritual Advisor to President Obama and former Executive Director of the White House Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships discusses how he navigated religious issues in the White House and the devotionals that he sent to President Obama each morning.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3437Ann Arbor 2014 Mayoral Candidates Town Hallhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2014-mayoral-panel.mp3
The event is free and open to the public. Scroll to the bottom of this page for the event video. About the event The students of Ford School's Public Policy 456/756 class, along with their instructor and current Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje, have organized a Town Hall gathering of the four Ann Arbor 2014 Mayoral candidates to take place on Wednesday April 16 from 1:10pm-2:30pm in Annenberg Auditorium of the Gerald R.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3533Cuba in the new millennium: Reforming orthodoxy and generational changehttp://fordschool.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2013-alberto-trejos.mp3
Alberto Trejos examines ongoing changes within Cuba's government and society and their implications for the future Cuban economy.Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:17:44 -0400Ford Schoolhttp://fordschool.umich.edu/node/3439